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abacinate

/əbˈæsɪneɪt/

abacinate verb: to blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes.

Verb

abacinate (third-person singular simple present abacinates, present participle abacinating, simple past and past participle abacinated)

  1. (rare, transitive) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes
    • "You young scapegrace," said Dandolo, "I will myself abacinate you — in the Venetian way." "How's that?" "Blind your eyes with the glare, not of hot irons, but of new ducats. Count your pile."1905, James M. Ludlow, Sir Raoul, page 233
    • Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold, page 196

Examples of abacinate in a sentence

  • Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.1986, Jeff Hanneman, “Angel of Death”, in Reign in Blood, performed by Slayer:
  • This chiasmic image of the subject's imperviousness suggests a sensory deprivation beyond sublimity, like that of abacinated anti-epistemology.1999, Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans, →ISBN, page 220:

Forms of abacinate

third-person singular presentabacinates
present participleabacinating
past participleabacinated
pastabacinated

Origin of abacinate

From Late Latin abacinātus, perfect passive participle of abacinō; possibly formed from ab (“off”) + bacīnum (“a basin”) or bacīnus. Probably cognate with modern Italian abbacinare (“to dazzle”).

Words formed from abacinate

Questions about abacinate

What does abacinate mean?
Abacinate means to blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes.
How do you use abacinate in a sentence?
Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.
What part of speech is abacinate?
Abacinate is a verb.
How do you pronounce abacinate?
Abacinate is pronounced /əbˈæsɪneɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of abacinate?
The past tense of abacinate is abacinated.

Words near abacinate in the dictionary

  1. abacaxi
  2. abacaxis
  3. abacha
  4. abaci
  5. abacillary
  6. abacinate
  7. abacinated
  8. abacinates
  9. abacinating
  10. abacination
  11. abacinations

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